2015 Bond Bowls World Cup: the confirmed line-ups

15th July 2015

The confirmed line-ups for the 9 teams competing at the first World Cup of short mat bowls are listed below. The players are listed in order, according to their finishing position in the 2014-15 Henselite Order of Merit. The highest qualifier and therefore the first player listed for each team will be ‘Player 1’, who will captain the team, and the lowest qualifier and last player listed will be ‘Player 4’.

Belgium

Jonathan Payne (C)

Dimitri Payne

Sibe Laureys

Louis Helsen

England

Chris Mann (C)

Dominic Reed

Jack Pye

James Trott

Ireland

Mark Beattie (C)

Andrew Morrison

Jal Richardson

Joseph Beattie

Isle of Man

Stephen Gale (C)

Jayne Smith

Michael Collister

Steve Durcan

Netherlands

Frans Roberts (C)

Saskia Schaft

Esther De Groot

Jan Reinders

Norway

Lars-Rune Lauritzen (C)

Ann-Katrin Kristiansen

Rune Klovtveit

Esben Lund

Sweden

Joel Hager (C)

Dick Almen

Jorgen Karlsson

Tommy Dahlgren

Wales

Sam Harvey (C)

Stephen Williams

Chris Davies

Peter Rees

Rest of the World

Antonio Rinaldi (ITA) (C)

Lawrence Moffat (SCO)

Bent Nielsen (DEN)

Andreas Hahn (GER)

More details relating to each of the teams, including their team colours, can be found on the ‘Teams’ pages of our World Cup website: www.worldshortmatbowls.com

Please remember that the draw for the 2015 Bond Bowls World Cup will be streamed on Friday 17 July at 8pm GMT.